As the embattled 39-year-old Australian hacker’s lawyers fight his extradition to Sweden, he’ll be working on a memoir. The book will be published in the U.S. by Knopf, a division of Random House, and in the U.K. by Canongate. …
E-book sales continue to climb. But the popularity of digital titles is forcing publishers to ask some thorny questions about pricing, negotiations with writers and the future of the publishing industry.
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Newsweek’s former editor-in-chief just happens to be a Pulitze Prize-winning author for Random House, so it’s no surprise he’s landing there. It’s also another example of how the publisher keeps reaching for big names to add to…
Celebrity books normally get a big marketing push. But the campaign for Decoded, the rap mogul’s new book of lyrics, is unprecedented. Thanks to backing from Clear Channel and Microsoft’s Bing, it’s surely in a league of its ow…
After Conde Nast’s surprise shuttering of Gourmet last fall, Ruth Reichl, its editor-in-chief, was out of a job. While the 70-year-old title is back as an iPad app, Reichl herself has moved away from magazines and back to book …